Anthologies featured in:Sweet Lemons 2: International Writings With a Sicilian Accent (Legas, 2011)Bigger Than They Appear: An Anthology of Very Short Poems (Accents Publishing, 2011)Writers Reading at Sweetwaters: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose (Word’n Woman Press, 2007)Cup of Comfort for a Bigger World: Stories that Celebrate Those Who Give, Care and Volunteer (Cup of Comfort, 2010)

Bio:
Cristina is a poet, fiction writer, and educator. She holds an MFA in writing from Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky, and teaches writing at Community College of Colorado Online. She currently is working on a novel sparked by an advertisement she saw on a car window.

Books:My Husband Is Gay: A Woman’s Guide To Surviving The Crisis
When Your Spouse Comes Out: A Straight Mate’s Recovery ManualMemory Quilt: A Family Narrative (Memoir)Glimpses: A Memoir In PoetrySun Of A New Dawn (Poetry)Handbook Of Affirmative Lgbt Couple And Family Therapy (Contributor, Chapter)From The Heart (Contributor)Writing, Etc. (Contributor)Bylines 2006 (Contributor)I Love You All Day (Contributor)

Periodicals:Journal of GLBT Family Studies
Going Bonkers
Unity Magazine
Women’s Magazine
Partners in Health
The Rotarian
Contemporary Times
Women’s Magazine
Longmont Business News
Oklahoma English Bulletin
The Haymaker
Magazine of Phillips University
The Christian
Wellspring
Christianity and Literature
Soliloquy
The Ram’s Horn

Awards/Honors:
2013 CAL Award for Poetry Collections
2009 CAL Top Hand (Specialty Writing)
Colorado BPW Woman of the Year
Boulder Business Pacesetter
Boulder Business Hall of Fame
Entrepreneur of Distinction

Bio:

Carol Grever has been a successful author, businesswoman, English professor and community advocate. Her newest book is a CAL award-winning memoir, Turnings: Reflections on a Conscious Life. She previously authored three other nonfiction books, My Husband Is Gay, When Your Spouse Comes Out, and Memory Quilt, and also wrote and produced a documentary, One Gay, One Straight: Complicated Marriages. Glimpses, her book-length poetry collection, won the Colorado Authors’ League 2013 Prize. As a recognized spokesperson on straight spouse issues, she has appeared on major network TV shows, including Anderson Cooper 360, The Early Show, Good Morning America, and The Oprah Winfrey Show. She has interviewed with media on three continents.

Books:The Demise of Rooster Rockstar: Selected Poetry, Photography, and Art
Butterflies, Scarabs and Secrets: The Life and Artwork of Clayton Blair Dougherty
Organization of a Christian Library: Dewey Decimal System (unpublished manuscript)Don’t Tell Mary (prequel to Butterflies, Scarabs and Secrets; in research phase)

Books:
I Promise Not to Suffer: A Fool for Love Hikes the Pacific Crest Trail
The Lord’s Motel
God’s Country Club
First Poems of Gail Donohue
“Totally Nude Live Girls” in Cowboys, Indians and Commuters; The Penguin Book of New American Voices, edited by Jay McInerney
“The Honeymoon Cottage” in Intro 13, AWP anthology
“Beachmont” in Intro 12, AWP anthology
Haikus, in Haiku-Sine anthology
“Noah’s Sestina for Raven and Dove” in Obsession: Sestinas in the Twenty-First Century

Karen Weinant Gallob

Books:
The Sumbally Fallacy, Volumes I through IV
All the Bad Stuff Comes in Threes

Memberships:
American Anthropological Association
Maher-Onion Valley Community Club
Bibliofillies
The Fun Bookclub

Bio:
Karen Gallob is a rancher and anthropologist as well as a writer. She taught several years at Metro State in Denver. She’s particularly interested in the relationships among language, culture and human perceptions of reality. Her PhD thesis was A Study of Humor in Mauritius, complete with jokes in Creole, Bhojpurl, Hindi, and French. She wrote the “Carpe Diem in the Crawford Outback” series for the North Fork Merchant Herald from 2001 to 2005. She’s currently working on a sequel to her cozy mystery, All the Bad Stuff Comes in Threes.

Books:
Phantom Canyon: Essays of Reclamation
Air Into Breath (Ashland Poetry Press)
You Can Teach Online (McGraw Hill)
You Can Learn Online (McGraw Hill)
Stepping Sideways Into Poetry (Scholastic, Inc)
Her creative nonfiction book, Phantom Canyon: Essays of Reclamation, will be released by Conundrum Press in January 2014

Online Credit:
A poet in the biosphere: The disjunction of lichen
On the Nature of Prose Poetry: Hummingbird or Paragraph
Bathing” as an example for In Conclusion: Tips to Create a Memorable Ending for Your Narrative Essay: Writing Center Underground
Afterward: a Draft, r.kv.r.y. quarterly literary review, essay and interview
Bathing, Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction 12(1), 2010, is available through Project MUSE; Bathing pdf
Unearthing Leetso: Yellow Monster Beneath the Four Corners of the World, River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, v 12.1, 2010, available through Project MUSE
Talisman of the Whirlpool, essay published in Literary Mama:Readings for the maternally inclined, July 2010
Van Gogh’s Saint-Remy, poem published in Many Mountains Moving
Andre Kertesz’s Distortion #40, poem at Fusion IV
(Note to Self): The Lyric Essay, essay available at Colorado Poets Center E Words
Bar Codes and Beyond: Writers Who Teach, CAL InPrint article pdf
Dark Skies, and Finding the Well, essays published in Wazee: New Independent Writing

Other Credits:
Comparative Study into Key Issues in Online Education: national study on state policies for K12 online programs regarding funding, quality and access: Sponsored by the Colorado Department of Education, Wisconsin Virtual High School, Illinois Virtual High School, Learning Points Association (NCREL)

Enhancing Education Through Technology: creation of a statewide grant initiative on Information-based decision making and professional development for Colorado K12: Sponsored by the Colorado Department of Education

Online Course Evaluation Project, funded by Hewlett Foundation

Report on Benchmarks or Best Practices in Online Instruction: Research paper on best practices across course platforms in online learning: Sponsored by McGraw Hill Higher Education division

Memberships:
AWP
Academy of American Poets
Denver Women’s Press Club

Awards/Honors:
“Of Wind and Fire” semifinalist for The Florida Review Editors Award and to be published in 2013
“The Lives of Cells” nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2013
On Wind and Fire, finalist for 2012 Michael Steinberg Essay Prize awarded by Fourth Genre
Interview on r.kv.r.y quarterly literary review
“The Lives of Cells” won first place in the 2011 Chautauqua poetry contest on War and Peace. Published June 2012 in Chautauqua Literary Journal
“Migrations” has won first place in the Non-Rhyming Poetry category of the 2011 Writer’s Digest Annual Writing Competition
“Bathing” has been named a Notable essay in The Best American Essays 2011

Her poetry won the $1000 first place prizes for the 2011 Chautauqua poetry contest on War and Peace and the 2011 Writers Digest Annual Writing Competition for non-rhyming poetry. Her poem, “The Lives of Cells,” has been nominated for a 2012 Pushcart Prize and won the 2013 Colorado Author League’s Award in Poetry. Her essay, Bathing, was named a notable essay in Best American Essays 2011 and is included, with the essay, (Note to Self): The Lyric Essay, in 6th edition of The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/an Creative Nonfiction textbook/anthology. Her essays, Heresies of the Holy and Of Wind and Fire have been finalists for the 7th and 8th Annual Fourth Genre Steinberg Essay Prize. Her essay, Elegies, was a finalist for the University of New Orleans Study Abroad Programs in Arts and Writing Writing Contest.

Books:
Not to be Forgiven
Walking in Two Worlds: Mixed- Blood Indian Woman Seeking Their Path
People of the Moonshell; People of the Troubled Water
People of the Old Missury
The Women Who Made the Headlines
Writing, Inc. contributor
The Way West (Anthology)

Periodicals:
American History magazine
Persimmon Hill
Wild West
Reader’s Digest

Memberships:
Authors Guild
Western Writers of America
National League of American Pen Women – Denver Branch
Denver Woman’s Press Club